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Opera

In a recent article that briefly examines some of the lasting impact that Beethoven has had on weste...
Author
Justin Rito

A new production with libretto and music by Tim Benjamin, Madame X premiered in London on Tuesday, A...
Author
Angelina Panozzo

Opera’s tough. You can’t just stand there and sing. The minimum requirement for an opera singer is t...
Author
Paul Kilbey

On July 20, 2014, the Glimmerglass Festival presented the premiere of a new version of composer Tobi...
Author
David Dies

In a pre-concert chat at the Theater an der Wien on Sunday, June 15, composer Georg Friedrich Haas s...
Author
Caitlin Smith

Following his 2013 opera Emily, composer Tim Benjamin is back this August with Madame X, an operatic...
Author
Angelina Panozzo

There is a quaintness to Mauricio Kagel’s Mare Nostrum (1975, rev. 1997). Its heavy-handed metaphors...
Author
Caitlin Smith

In his 1964 essay for the Cambridge Opera Handbooks’ Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress, the compo...
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Caitlin Smith

In 2010, after winning the IAWM Genre Prize for her multimedia work Creation, Sabrina Peña Young imm...
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Thea Derks

The San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of Mark Adamo’s The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene, wh...
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Kelsey Walsh

If television’s IFC produced operas in addition to off-kilter films and quirky sitcoms, composer Ja...
Author
Daniel Kushner

In 1904 the Swiss adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt (born 1877) drowned in a flash flood in the Sahara,...
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Thea Derks

This is the first post of Technology Editor Dana Wen's two-part coverage of the seventh annual Music...
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Dana Wen

Now in its seventh year, the 2013 Music & Brain Symposium begins on April 12 at Stanford Univers...
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Dana Wen

Few would deny that the latest internet sensation is goats—screaming goats—and it didn’t take...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

This season the New York City Opera presents 4 new productions: two at BAM, and two at New York City...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

Described by The New Yorker as “an arrestingly gifted young American composer,” and by the New York...
Author
Christian Gentry

Experiments in Opera has commissioned 10 composers to present new operas that last no more than 10 m...
Author
Daniel Kushner

Here's a story I hope is true. Years ago, Laurie Anderson contacted Thomas Pynchon via snail mail to...
Author
Sam Zelitch

5 questions to Monica Harte (soprano, co-founder and general director of Remarkable Theater Brigade)
On Friday, October 19, the Remarkable Theater Brigade is back at Carnegie Hall (Zankel) for another...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The Knights The Knights is an orchestra of friends from a broad spectrum of the New York music worl...
Author
Sam Reising

Nixon in China. John Adams' first opera. San Francisco Opera’s series of performances (which began J...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
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